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Duke Football Game Notes: at North Carolina, Nov. 24, 3:30 PM, ESPNU
Duke Concludes Season Vs. Tar Heels
Duke will conclude the 2007 season on Saturday, November 24 when the Blue Devils travel to Chapel Hill to square off against chief rival North Carolina. Kickoff at Kenan Memorial Stadium is set for 3:30 p.m., and the game can be heard on the Duke Radio Network with Bob Harris (play-by-play), Wes Chesson (analysis) and Anthony Dilweg (sideline) calling the action. The game also will be televised live by ESPNU. The Blue Devils are coming off a 28-7 loss at Notre Dame last weekend while North Carolina fell, 27-25, on the road to Georgia Tech.
The Duke-North Carolina Series
Duke and North Carolina have met 93 times on the gridiron, with the Tar Heels holding a 53-36-4 all-time series advantage. The series began in 1888 when Duke earned a 16-0 win. Duke went 5-0-1 in the first six meetings. North Carolina sandwiched 13 wins between Duke’s victories in 1989 and 2003.
Overall North Carolina, 53-36-4
First Meeting Duke, 16-0 in 1888
Last Meeting North Carolina, 45-44 in 2006
Duke’s Highest Scoring 47 in 1954
Duke’s Lowest Scoring 0, 16 times
UNC’s Highest Scoring 59 in 1970 & 2000
UNC’s Lowest Scoring 0, 14 times
Current Streak North Carolina, W3
Largest Duke Margin of Victory 41, 1989
Largest UNC Margin of Victory 50, 1959
Duke’s Last Win in Chapel Hill 2003 (30-22)
UNC’s Last Win in Durham 2005 (24-21)
The Carlyle Cup
The Carlyle Cup ? an all-sport competition between Duke and North Carolina ? is in its eighth year of existence. The winner of this week’s football game will receive two points to its yearly total. North Carolina holds a 6.0-2.0 lead in the current standings. Carlyle & Company, the Greensboro, N.C.-based jeweler, remains the title sponsor of this head-to-head all-sports competition. Each school has won three Cups, with Duke claiming the title in 2001, 2003 and 2004, and the tally ending in a tie for the 2006-07 year.
Victory Bell
The battle for the Victory Bell began in 1948 with North Carolina earning possession with a 20-0 win in Chapel Hill. Duke head cheerleader Loring Jones and North Carolina head cheerleader Norman Spear decided on the idea of the Victory Bell. Jones designed the model while Spear obtained a bell from an old railroad train. Red Lewis, Duke’s business manager for athletics, agreed to find money in the budget to pay for the bell.
Duke-North Carolina Ties
? Wes Chesson, who serves as the color analyst for the Duke Radio Network, scored on a 53-yard touchdown pass from Marcell Courtillet on the famed “shoestring play” in Duke’s 17-13 victory in 1969.
? Anthony Dilweg, the Duke Radio Network’s sideline reporter, completed 29-of-49 passes for 362 yards and three touchdowns in the Blue Devils’ 35-29 win over the Tar Heels in 1988. Dilweg engineered a game-winning 76-yard drive which resulted in Roger Boone’s six-yard scoring run with just 23 seconds remaining in the game.
? Duke assistant coaches John Gutekunst and Danny Pearman served on the North Carolina coaching staff recently. Gutekunst coached with the Tar Heels from 2004-06 while Pearman was on the UNC staff for the 2006 campaign.
? Duke director of player development Terrell Smith logged seven tackles and forced a fumble in the Blue Devils’ 30-22 victory over North Carolina in 2003. Smith, a captain on the 2003 club, led the Blue Devils in tackles with 140 that season and received All-ACC honors.
Seven Straight League Titles
Duke and North Carolina enjoyed a hold on the Southern Conference championship trophy from 1933-39 with the Blue Devils winning the title in 1933, 1935, 1936, 1938 and 1939 and the Tar Heels claiming the crown in 1934 and 1937. Over the seven-year stretch, Duke compiled an overall record of 57-10-1 under head coach Wallace Wade while North Carolina went 48-13-4 under head coaches Chuck Collins (1933), Carl Snavely (1934-35) and Ray Wolf (1936-39). Duke won five of the seven meetings between the two schools, with the winner going on to earn the league title each season.
Roof Vs. North Carolina
As a player, assistant coach and head coach against North Carolina, Duke head coach Ted Roof has compiled a record of 6-11 including a 1-3 ledger as the head coach of the Blue Devils:
Ted Roof ? Versus North Carolina
Year Capacity Score
1982 Player N. Carolina 41, Georgia Tech 0
1983 Player N. Carolina 38, Ga. Tech 21
1984 Player N. Carolina 24, Ga. Tech 17
1985 Player Ga. Tech 31, N. Carolina 0
1990 Asst. Coach N. Carolina 24, Duke 22
1991 Asst. Coach N. Carolina 47, Duke 14
1992 Asst. Coach N. Carolina 31, Duke 28
1993 Asst. Coach N. Carolina 38, Duke 24
1998 Asst. Coach Ga. Tech 43, N. Carolina 21
1999 Asst. Coach Ga. Tech 31, N. Carolina 24
2000 Asst. Coach Ga. Tech 42, N. Carolina 28
2001 Asst. Coach Ga. Tech 28, N. Carolina 21
2002 Asst. Coach N. Carolina 23, Duke 21
2003 Head Coach Duke 30, N. Carolina 22
2004 Head Coach N. Carolina 40, Duke 17
2005 Head Coach N. Carolina 24, Duke 21
2006 Head Coach N. Carolina 45, Duke 44
Duke-North Carolina Series Notes
? 1888 ? Then Trinity College, Duke wins the first game in the series, 16-0. Stonewall Durham scores the first touchdown in the series.
? 1935 ? Duke’s Jack Alexander rushes for 193 yards as the Blue Devils post a 25-0 victory.
? 1937 ? En route to the Southern Conference title, unranked North Carolina defeats eighth-ranked Duke, 14-6, in Durham.
? 1939 ? In the only meeting when both teams were ranked among the nation’s top 25, 13th-ranked Duke rallies from a 3-0 halftime deficit to hand seventh-ranked North Carolina its lone loss of the season. Duke would finish the year 8-1 and win the Southern Conference championship while the Tar Heels went 8-1-1.
? 1949 ? The crowd of 57,500, Duke’s largest crowd to date, pours into what is now Wallace Wade Stadium to see Duke lose to North Carolina, 21-20.
? 1950 ? Wallace Wade coaches his final game for Duke and defeats North Carolina, 7-0.
? 1955 ? In its first appearance on television, Duke defeats North Carolina, 6-0, as Oliver Rudy scores on a 35-yard run in the second quarter. The victory clinches the Blue Devils’ third straight ACC title.
? 1959 ? With a national television audience looking on, North Carolina scores on its first three possessions and never looks back, winning 50-0.
? 1965 ? In head coach Bill Murray’s final game, the Blue Devils down North Carolina, 34-7, to give Murray a share of his seventh ACC title. Bob Matheson returns an interception 35 yards for a score while Jay Calabrese contributes three touchdowns.
? 1970 ? Don McCauley rushes 47 times for 279 yards and five TDs as North Carolina wins, 59-34.
? 1980 ? North Carolina’s Amos Lawrence rushes for 143 yards ? his fourth 100-yard effort versus Duke ? as the 15th-ranked Tar Heels win in Chapel Hill, 44-21.
? 1985 ? Wide receiver Doug Green catches three second-half touchdown passes ? including two in the final two minutes ? to guide Duke past North Carolina, 23-21, in Chapel Hill. Green, who finishes with 10 receptions for 152 yards, grabs the game-winning score from Steve Slayden with just 1:10 left in the game as Duke rallies from a 21-3 late third quarter deficit.
? 1989 ? In Chapel Hill, Duke wraps up the ACC title with a 41-0 win over the Tar Heels. The win, Duke’s seventh straight to close the regular season, is highlighted by Dave Brown’s school-record 479 passing yards. The victory marked Duke’s seventh straight of the season after opening the year with a 1-3 ledger.
? 1994 ? With both teams heading to bowl games, North Carolina closes out the regular season with a 41-40 win over Duke in Durham on the strength of a late 71-yard TD pass from Mike Thomas to Octavus Barnes. Duke’s Spence Fischer completes 33-of-57 passes for 395 yards and four touchdowns in the contest. Duke’s 60-yard field goal try as time expired fell short.
? 2002 ? Dan Orner boots a 47-yard field goal as time expires to boost North Carolina past Duke, 23-21. The Blue Devils had taken a 21-20 advantage with just over two minutes remaining on Adam Smith’s 33-yard TD pass to Senterrio Landrum.
? 2003 ? Duke darts out to a 23-0 halftime lead and holds on for a 30-22 victory in Chapel Hill, snapping a 13-game Tar Heel winning streak in the series. Duke’s Cedric Dargan and Chris Douglas combine to rush for 171 yards and three touchdowns in the triumph.
